Boku no Kanojo Sensei Volume 1 Afterword

Afterword

Nice to meet you, my name is Kagami
Yuu. I think that it’s been around three years since I published a
new work with MF Bunko J-san, though nothing out of the ordinary
changed. That doesn’t mean that I only ate and slept in that time.
I wrote, and wrote, and wrote. Though, there were also times when I
didn’t do anything…

And, on the contrary to the previous
battle novel, this time it’s a rom-com. At first, I thought of
something like ‘A twisted protagonist, and a Senpai that’s a bit
crazy—weird in her head.’ but all of a sudden it was a teacher as
a main heroine. Though I did plan to make the heroine older, the main
attribute changed. And, even though I did write a ‘beautiful
teacher’ for countless game scenarios, this is the first time that
said character is the main female lead. Well, most of these games
were of the erotic type. Since this is a light novel, it will be only
wholesome (Right?). That reminds me, the work that I debuted with
also had a beautiful teacher. Even though I didn’t plan for that at
all. At that time, I was really young…Really, really young, you
know? I finished the plot and everything, and ended up making it
revolve around said beautiful teacher, wow. In the end, she did turn
out pretty popular, but I really was worried. Though I guess that I
would do the same thing again.

Well, to return to the work at hand. To
be honest, I was having a hard time actually writing a teacher
heroine. After all, most light novel heroines are not even in their
twenties. I was actually thinking of putting some sort of twist into
it, that she isn’t actually in her twenties, but in the end…well,
you’ve read the result. To be precise, I just thought “Shouldn’t
it be fine to make her as cute as possible” and build up the
character around that. And that’s how Maka-sensei was born. A cute,
but still somewhat reckless teacher. I guess you could sum it up with
“If my school had a teacher like this, I would’ve gone to school
for sure~”. Even if this isn’t a fantasy, there have to be some
more fictional elements in this rom-com. She’s a beauty, erotic,
and you sometimes can’t read what she’s thinking, but a flirty
teacher is the best, don’t you think? I did spend my student life
rather seriously, there were times when I did skip. But what if I had
a teacher like that…? That’s how I maybe put a long forgotten
wish of mine into the story.

Concerning the title, I did exchange
opinions with my editor countless times, and it was like a giving
birth to a child. There might be times the editor might throw
titles—excuse me, where the title is left to them, but this time, I
wanted the both of us to work on it.

Still, ‘Boku no Kanojo Sensei’.
Yeah, I was a bit surprised at first at the simplicity. Writing the
Kanojo in katakana, and the pairing with Sensei might give it some
new, fresh feeling. Since the title was rather simple, we thought of
adding some subtitles for it, but this main title remained
victorious. Taking said title in consideration, I really hope that
you like this novel.

Oryō-sensei,
thank you so much for the illustrations! Maka-sensei looks so
adult-like, but still so cute, it’s the best! And, sorry that there
are so many characters. From a woman in her twenties, to a girl in
fifth grade, the age-range is quite wide, but every character was
just as cute as I hoped them to be!

To
my editor, thank you so much for putting up with a bothersome author
like me.

To
everyone that was involved with the production and distribution of
this book, thank you so much!

And,
to all the people that picked this up, I cannot thank you enough!